I think SOPA will change a lot for the better. Just like Spam filters make e-mail better. Sure it does not block 100% of the SPAM but it costs the spammers plenty in potential revenue that is lost. Sure there will be a few successful spamers/pirates here and there but the "golden days" of "Free speech" errrr i mean "stealing other peoples stuff and making $$" will be gone.
The key part is that they can block traffic to the USA and attack them where it hurts: payment processing.
Other countries will adopt their own SOPA as well, Spain for example has just passed such a law. Blocking the pirates from the US and Europe is a serious attack on their financial capabilities.
I don't agree with people who are saying "people are now used to getting porn for free" this is not true.
I know people will pay for content once they HAVE to. We had NO tax in our country now we pay. We had free Schooling now we pay. We had free health care now we pay. We had no VAT now we have 18%. We used to buy knock off "brand name" clothing now they are gone and replaced by real goods.
Sure there will be a few tech savvy geeks who will find some underground site, but the vast majority of regular joes will go back to paying. Its not like membership to a website costs 1000000$ or anything...the regular 30-40$ membership fee is not much to many people. People will want fresh HD content and all the tubes have to offer is recycled 5 min clips that are not getting any newer.
Content costs money and the "steal it for free" business model will come to an end one way or the other in the civilized world. The civilized world is 90% of the market for porn.
Just my
